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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1878

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

The Paris Exhibition. PARIS, May 1

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 3

THE Exhibition was opened to-day by tho Marshal-President with great eclat. The opening ceremony was very imposing. Representatives were…

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Sketcher. Mr. Fair, "The Silver King."

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 28 August 1878 · page 2

THE prodigious quantities of silver recently dug from the mines of Nevada and California, have as in generally known, had the effect of lowering the commercial value of silver to…

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The Paris Exhibition. PARIS, August 31

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

THE following awards have been made by the Judges to exhibitors in the New South Wales Court at the Universal Exhibition :— The Grand Prize to tho Hon. E. K. Cox,…

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Crabeller. the Dead of Munich. the Public Exhibition of the Bodies

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1878 · page 2

THE cemetery at Munich always has attraction to the visitor, on account of the peculiarity of funerals and the exposure of the bodies of the dead three days before burial. The law…

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